The accepted parameters of what defines a rock star might change with each passing trend, but you know one when you see one. We rank the top 50 around today.

Ground zero for the mass-market dual-cassette technology came courtesy of U.K. consumer electronics pioneer Alan Sugar. While visiting the Tokyo neighborhood of Akihabara, which is known for its ...

OK Computer is where everything changed for Radiohead. Their 1993 debut album, Pablo Honey, was spotty, bland and tentative; its 1995 follow-up, The Bends, was a major leap forward. But who was ...

From the moment the Arctic Monkeys released 'Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not' in 2006, they've been one one of the most buzzed-about bands on the planet. Last year's 'AM' finally ...

Here are 20 times the 'Star Wars' film universe has been referenced in lyrics and song titles.

We spoke with three members of the Revolution and Vernon Reid about Prince's smash hit, Let's Go Crazy.

A dance floor meeting with supermodel Cindy Crawford inspired the funky, racy track Cindy C, written for the long-delayed 'Black Album.' ...

So, below, we spotlight 35 of the most offensive band names ever. Of course, everybody has a different interpretation of what's over the line (or if a line should exist at all), but to cover our ...

1 Before Green Day, singer-guitarist Billie Joe Amrstrong and singer-bassist Mike Dirnt played their first show together under the name Sweet Children at Rod's Hickory Pit in Vallejo, Calif., in 1987.

It was 40 years ago that a tiny country bar in a seedy part of Manhattan compromised its principles, started booking rock acts and altered the course of music history.

Three years after he stole Jesse Johnson's thunder with 'Shockadelica,' Prince found himself out-shocked by Ween.

They were mixed race, mixed gender, and mixed genre. Funk rock may have never happened without Mother's Finest.